Door stop and holder.



D. A. SOX.

DOOR STOP AND HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1909.

Patented Deb. 14, 1909.

shouldered block,

against the DAVID a sox,

OF COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA.

DOOR STOP AND HOLDER.

acacia.

Application filed June 21, 1909.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, Darn) A. Sox, a citizen of the United States,residing at Columbia, in the county of Richland and State of SouthCarolina, have invented a new-and useful Door Stop and Holder, of whichthe following is a specification.

It is the object of the present invention to provide an improvedconstruction of door stop and holder, and the invention is directed morespecifically to thatclass of such devices which are embodied in apivoted between the shoulders of which the lower edge of the doorengages when swung to open position. Ordinarily, such devices areconstructed with fiat under surfaces, and, in securing them upon afloor,

Specification of Letters Patent.

a washer or sleeve is interposed between the.

under surface of the block and the floor surface. whereby the said undersurface'of the block will be spaced above the floor surface, andfriction will be materially obviated.

It is therefore the object of the present invention to so form the undersurface of the block as to obviate the employment of washers or sleeves,and yet. to provide against frictional contact of the under surface ofthe block with the floor surface.

' A further feature of the invention resides in forming the shoulderswith abrupt faces and sharp corners, defining the faces, whereby thedevice will be less liable to bind door, and will more readily be swungupon its pivot than would be the case were the shoulders convex.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of the doorstop and holder embodying the present invention, a door being shownengaged with the stop, in dotted lines. Fig. 2 1s a View in sideelevation of the device. Fig. 3 is a detail per- 'spcc"ive view of oneend of a slightly modilied form of stop.

As shown in the drawings, the door stop and holder embodying the presentinvention,

is in the form of a block having a general rectangular outline, and thisblock is indicated by the numeral 5 and is formed at each end and uponits upper face with a shoulder (S, the side faces of the shoulders (3,in the form of-the invention illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 of thedrawings, being in par- ,allel planes, and the outwardly presented inits lower Patented Dec. l-lt, lltltl Serial No. 503,514.

faces being in inclined planes, as indicated bythe numeral 7. Morespecifically, these faces 7 incline upwardly synclinally. The inner oropposed faces of the shoulders are in vertical planes, as indicated bythe numeral 8.

The under face of the block 5 is convex from end to end, as indicated bythe numeral 9, the block being thicker at its middle than at any otherportion, and being formed through its middle, or. in other words,vertically at a point midway of its ends with an opening 10, throughwhich is engaged a securing and pivot screw 11. It will be readilyunderstood that this pivot screw is to be threaded into the floor uponwhicht'he stop is mounted, and that the under surface of the block, atits mid portion, rests upon the said floor surface, but that theportions to each side of this portion are spaced from the floor surface,or, in other words, are out of frictional contact, therewith.

When the stop is properly positioned upon the floor surface, as regardsthe position assumed by the door when swung to open position, suchmovement of the door will result edge engaging with one of the shoulders(i, whercu' mn the block will be rotated through 90 degrees or less,permitting the vertical free edge of the door.to pass the shoulder andengage with the other shoulder of the block. Such engagement of the doorwith the other shoulder of the device will result in the device beingswung to the position shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings, in which positionthe door engages between the shoulders and is firmly held againstswinging to closed position.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig.

3 of the drawings, thelshoulders 6 at the 7 ends of the block areprovided, in addition tothc inclined face 7, each with converging sidefaces 12. In other words, the block has its shoulders formed each withthree beveled faces.

From the foregoing description of the invention it will be readilyunderstood that it is entirely unnecessary to employ, in connection withthe form of stop embodying the invention, washers between the undersurface of the stop and the floor surface, and that. the shouldershaving abrupt faces and corners will result in the block being morereadily swung around to door-holding posii iion than with Lhe facesconvex.

What is claimed is:-

A device 01 the vines described comprising a block fonned'upon its upperface at each end with a shoulder, and midway of its ends with apivot-receiving opening, the under surface of the block-being convex.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as ny own, I haye hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two wltnessesf DAVID A. SOX.

Vitnesses JAMES: G. I-Iomms, Amix RUNLANI).

